Re: Why no ** operator in Modula2?

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From: Tarjei Jensen
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 06:46

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I agree that Wirth is onto something. I don't dispute that oberon and modula2
might be academically sound (you can do anything with them), but I think that
he has forgotten the programmer. There seems to be very little thought about
ergonomics (look and feel?) in his programming languages.

I think somebody needs to do approximately the same to oberon as UCSD and
Borland did to Pascal. It is not accident that made Turbo Pascal outdo Modula
2.

Greetings from Norway,
--
// Tarjei T. Jensen - if it ain't broken, fix it anyway!
//    tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no       || +47 87 21138
// Working, but not speaking for the Norwegian National Library.

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